top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-02-17

Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/pay-up-or-well-make-google-ban-your-ads/

6 years ago

831 upvotes – 297 comments

How These Things Work – A book about CS from first principles (2016)

http://reasonablypolymorphic.com/book/preface

6 years ago

688 upvotes – 57 comments

Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's extradition hearing

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/20/02/17/2121236/twitter-locks-wikileaks-official-account-with-54-million-followers-days-before-julian-assanges-extradition-hearing

6 years ago

512 upvotes – 349 comments

What eight years of side projects have taught me (2019)

https://www.junglecoder.com/blog/idea-chain-themes

6 years ago

412 upvotes – 90 comments

Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22345150

6 years ago

408 upvotes – 229 comments

Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by strangling it

https://understandlegacycode.com/blog/avoid-rewriting-a-legacy-system-from-scratch-by-strangling-it/

6 years ago

397 upvotes – 121 comments

Markdeep – plain text documents with diagrams, equations, and Markdown syntax

https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/

6 years ago

360 upvotes – 108 comments

Google/Trax – Understand and explore advanced deep learning

https://github.com/google/trax

6 years ago

★ 8.3k Python Apache-2.0
359 upvotes – 50 comments

Vue.js: The Documentary (Trailer) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EmYw-O-WLI

6 years ago

309 upvotes – 98 comments

Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug it

https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws#kernighans-law

6 years ago

★ 27k HTML CC-BY-SA-4.0
289 upvotes – 153 comments

Building a static serverless website using S3 and CloudFront

https://sanderknape.com/2020/02/building-a-static-serverless-website-using-s3-cloudfront/

6 years ago

257 upvotes – 273 comments

The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer

https://payne.org/blog/the-myth-of-the-myth-of-the-10x-programmer/

6 years ago

248 upvotes – 219 comments

Let’s Build a Compiler (1995)

https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/

6 years ago

240 upvotes – 41 comments

Ray Tracing Essentials, Part 1: Basics of Ray Tracing

https://news.developer.nvidia.com/ray-tracing-essentials-part-1-basics-of-ray-tracing/

6 years ago

231 upvotes – 40 comments

i3 4.18

https://i3wm.org/downloads/RELEASE-NOTES-4.18.txt

6 years ago

221 upvotes – 186 comments

In Santa Cruz, a graduate student strike grows out of a housing crisis

https://newrepublic.com/article/156591/wildcat-strike-grows-housing-crisis

6 years ago

215 upvotes – 276 comments

Launch HN: Motion (YC W20) – defense against online distractions and addictions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22349329

6 years ago

210 upvotes – 125 comments

Google ditches its free WiFi service in South Africa, three months after launch

https://www.businessinsider.co.za/google-backs-out-free-wifi-google-station-partnership-with-think-wifi-in-south-africa-2020-2

6 years ago

207 upvotes – 148 comments

GDB Frontend with C Pointer Visualization

https://github.com/rohanrhu/gdb-frontend

6 years ago

★ 3k JavaScript GPL-3.0
206 upvotes – 57 comments

Iota cryptocurrency shuts down entire network after wallet hack

https://www.zdnet.com/article/iota-cryptocurrency-shuts-down-entire-network-after-wallet-hack/

6 years ago

202 upvotes – 148 comments

SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites, misses booster landing

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/17/spacex-successfully-launches-60-more-starlink-satellites-but-misses-booster-landing/

6 years ago

176 upvotes – 219 comments

Running servers and services well is not trivial (2018)

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/RunningServersNotTrivial

6 years ago

156 upvotes – 74 comments

Google to Samsung: Stop messing with Linux kernel code. It's hurting Android

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-to-samsung-stop-messing-with-linux-kernel-code-its-hurting-android-security/

6 years ago

152 upvotes – 71 comments

An SSH server that knows who you are

https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/1229093553269362689

6 years ago

152 upvotes – 55 comments

On Design Thinking

https://nplusonemag.com/issue-35/reviews/on-design-thinking/

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 27 comments

DisplayPort and 4K

https://etbe.coker.com.au/2020/02/16/displayport-4k/

6 years ago

150 upvotes – 278 comments

NPM: 429 Too Many Requests

https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/836

6 years ago

★ 9.7k JavaScript
145 upvotes – 163 comments

An investigation of the Pentagon's UFO program

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a30916275/government-secret-ufo-program-investigation/

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 149 comments

Calculating Pi: My Attempt at Breaking the Pi World Record

https://blog.timothymullican.com/calculating-pi-my-attempt-breaking-pi-record

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 79 comments

Code and data for The Economist's Big Mac index

https://github.com/TheEconomist/big-mac-data

6 years ago

★ 1.7k Jupyter Notebook MIT
138 upvotes – 27 comments

Max/MSP: A visual programming language for music and multimedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_(software)

6 years ago

128 upvotes – 65 comments

SEC proposes changes to “accredited investor” definition

https://www.dlapiper.com/en/us/insights/publications/2020/01/sec-proposes-changes-to-accredited-investor-definition/

6 years ago

127 upvotes – 133 comments

Tesla teardown finds electronics 6 years ahead of Toyota and VW

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/Tesla-teardown-finds-electronics-6-years-ahead-of-Toyota-and-VW2

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 449 comments

Tesla teardown finds electronics ahead of Toyota and VW

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/Tesla-teardown-finds-electronics-6-years-ahead-of-Toyota-and-VW2

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 1 comments

Jeff Bezos Commits $10B to Address Climate Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/technology/jeff-bezos-climate-change-earth-fund.html

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 227 comments

Team Structure for Software Reliability Within Organizations

https://www.blameless.com/structuring-team-software-reliability/

6 years ago

125 upvotes – 50 comments

Jeff Bezos pledges $10b to launch Earth Fund for combating climate change

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/17/amazons-jeff-bezos-pledges-10-billion-to-launch-earth-fund-for-combating-climate-change.html

6 years ago

120 upvotes – 1 comments

Move, simply

https://herbsutter.com/2020/02/17/move-simply/

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 92 comments

SpaceX first stage landing failed for Starlink-4 launch

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/f4d8sg/rspacex_starlink4_official_launch_discussion/

6 years ago

108 upvotes – 66 comments

ESO telescope sees surface of dim Betelgeuse

https://phys.org/news/2020-02-eso-telescope-surface-dim-betelgeuse.html

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 59 comments

An emulator for a Sun 2 workstation

https://github.com/lisper/emulator-sun-2

6 years ago

★ 153 Roff GPL-2.0
101 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: IRedis: CLI for Redis with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting

https://github.com/laixintao/iredis/

6 years ago

★ 2.7k Python BSD-3-Clause
97 upvotes – 10 comments

Thought Experiment: An Introductory Compilers Class

https://semantic-domain.blogspot.com/2020/02/thought-experiment-introductory.html

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 22 comments

Insights – Open-Source Self-Hosted Business Intelligence Platform

https://github.com/mariusandra/insights

6 years ago

★ 1.1k JavaScript MIT
91 upvotes – 14 comments

FreeCAD on Raspberry Pi 4

https://scruss.com/blog/2020/02/16/freecad-on-raspberry-pi-4/

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 36 comments

Soviet Calculators History (1998)

http://www.xnumber.com/xnumber/russian_calcs.htm

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 29 comments

The Chaos at Condé Nast

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/style/details-dan-peres-book.html

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 42 comments

Is an Aboriginal tale of an ancient volcano the oldest story ever told?

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/aboriginal-tale-ancient-volcano-oldest-story-ever-told

6 years ago

87 upvotes – 69 comments

The Big Data of Big Hair (2019)

https://pudding.cool/2019/11/big-hair/

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 12 comments

Are courts keeping “junk science” out of the courtroom?

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/psychological-assessment-in-legal-contexts-are-courts-keeping-junk-science-out-of-the-courtroom.html

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 81 comments

How to Talk to Your Customers

http://howtomarketagame.com/2020/02/17/how-to-talk-to-your-customers/

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 7 comments

Share your screen on Zoom with ultrasound

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/214629303-Direct-Share-with-Zoom-Rooms

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 53 comments

Finite Element Method

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_element_method

6 years ago

75 upvotes – 44 comments
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